Location:
Middle East, Islam, Technology, World History
Richard Bulliet, received his B.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1967) from Harvard. His publications include:
The Patricians of Nishapur: A Study in Medieval Islamic Social History (1972);
The Camel and the Wheel (1975);
Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History (1979);
Islam: The View from the Edge (1994);
The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (2004);
Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships (2005); and
Cotton and Climate in Early Islamic Iran (forthcoming). He co-edited
The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (1996), co-authored
The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History (1997), and conceived and edited
The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century (1998).
